Revenant Billy Collins Summary

The Revenant means a person who has returned from the dead. So Right off the bat he is talking about someone who is deceased. A reader could also assume the t one to be solem. The the first sentence starts off with “I am the dog you put to sleep,” (1) Now we know who past away; maybe a dog that he knew or his dog. Then the next 34 lines are about how when the dog was alive how he didn't like anything the owner did for him. The author then finishes off the poem by saying that the dogs version of heaven is exactly like everybody assumed it was. In the end the author tells a theme of don’t assume the feeling of other.
The author Billy Collins uses Irony in the last couple of lines “ and that is all you need to know about this place/ except what